On the road….again

As I started to drive up to Milwaukee to begin my annual Nutcracker run, something suddenly struck me–I hadn’t left the state of Illinois since the summer! In fact, the furthest I’d wandered the whole fall was to take a few trips to Elgin, just 35...

Scott Rosenthal and Jason goof off before interview

Last week I put out some fun Photo Booth photos of Elgin Symphony bassists Tim Shaffer and Scott Rosenthal.  Well, I got in on the action earlier this year as well, just before interviewing Scott for Contrabass Conversations: I love Photo Booth!

Great responses to ‘Making a Living’

We’ve had some excellent comments from readers to Bill Harrison’s ‘Making a Living’ blog post last week. I have yet to craft my own response to Bill’s question, but I’m working on it. Here are a few comments from this post in...

On freelancing and auditioning

John Floeter put out a great post on his bass studio blog recently about his thoughts and observations on freelancing and auditioning. This post is quite relevant to many of my writings about the freelance business (which you can find under my Articles link).Here are...

Bass shot of the day

Here is a great, contemplative shot of Dave Arenius playing the double bass:Related Posts:Older bass shots of the day: 1 2 3 4 5 6The other kind of double bassElgin Symphony bass section – photoMicrosoft Tech Support – photoWorld’s most dangerous...